Last year, the board revamped the SAC/DAC appointment process, giving themselves absolute control over those boards. They’ve made their selections for this current school year – much later than traditionally has been done though (there are reviews the SAC/DAC would typically do before this point that aren’t happening as a result).

In all, 44 people applied! You can see the members selected at the district’s website. The board did pack the committees with people known to be supporters of this board, which does raise the question about how much ‘accountability’ these accountability committees will provide. Additionally, nine of the members chosen did not submit applications to be on one of the committees (Sean Pekron, Mike Demuth, Richard Starling, Samantha Huitt, Julie Lyons, Kristin Montgomery, Grace McKoy, Finn Bryant, Shaina Lampton). It’s not clear why those people were chosen over people who HAD submitted the proper applications.